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NEWS: Land of the Lustrous TV Anime Reveals Character Designs for Phos, Cinnabar


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PsychoPearl



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:53 am Reply with quote
Whenever I looked up the manga or characters, they were always or usually referred with male pronouns, but I guess their genders were never specified in the first place, also when I read a little bit of the manga. Maybe they're genderless or their genders are up to interpretation?
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Animechic420



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 11:57 am Reply with quote
PsychoPearl wrote:
Whenever I looked up the manga or characters, they were always or usually referred with male pronouns, but I guess their genders were never specified in the first place, also when I read a little bit of the manga. Maybe they're genderless or their genders are up to interpretation?

They are genderless. I bought the actual plainted manga in English and they avoid using pronouns all together.
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CatSword



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:17 pm Reply with quote
Any anime with a character named "Cinnabar" is definitely going to catch my attention. Now I'm thinking of Fireballs. Laughing
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musouka



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:32 pm Reply with quote
PsychoPearl wrote:
Whenever I looked up the manga or characters, they were always or usually referred with male pronouns, but I guess their genders were never specified in the first place, also when I read a little bit of the manga. Maybe they're genderless or their genders are up to interpretation?


The gems are technically genderless, but are referred to as "he" and "older brothers" in the manga very clearly (and obviously purposefully). I'm not sure why the English version went so far as to remove those places where genders are specifically given, but unless ANN is getting the genders directly from the studio--which really concerns me as far as the adaptation is concerned--I think the pronouns should be changed for this article and subsequent ones. Here is proof regarding Cinnabar.
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Zoneflare



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:49 pm Reply with quote
Doesn't look appealing to me so I'll have to pass on watching this.
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TrailOfDead



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 2:36 pm Reply with quote
after the success of Steven Universe, it only makes sense for the Sad Gay Space Rock genre to go international
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64BitRatchet



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 2:40 pm Reply with quote
Looks great, I hope Funiroll or Amazon get this, and not Netflix since they often go for CGI shows. I hope Netflix is done for the year.
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hinugundam



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 2:58 pm Reply with quote
Sounds awesome, I really am looking forward to this.

TrailOfDead wrote:
after the success of Steven Universe, it only makes sense for the Sad Gay Space Rock genre to go international


I have been a huge fan of Steven Universe, if this is anywhere near as good as that I'll be happy.
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PotatoGirl



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:14 pm Reply with quote
I really want to see Yellow's design...
TrailOfDead wrote:
after the success of Steven Universe, it only makes sense for the Sad Gay Space Rock genre to go international

LotL is actually older than SU by a year.
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Animechic420



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:45 pm Reply with quote
TrailOfDead wrote:
After the success of Steven Universe, it only makes sense for the Sad Gay Space Rock genre to go international

Please, don't ruin this for me or you'll give certain people ideas. Confused
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hinugundam



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:49 pm Reply with quote
Animechic420 wrote:
TrailOfDead wrote:
After the success of Steven Universe, it only makes sense for the Sad Gay Space Rock genre to go international

Please, don't ruin this for me or you'll give certain people ideas. Confused

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John Hayabusa



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 5:25 pm Reply with quote
So I guess this is Steven Universe: The Anime. And maybe with less yuri.
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Animechic420



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:58 pm Reply with quote
John Hayabusa wrote:
So I guess this is Steven Universe: The Anime. And maybe with less yuri.

Or no yuri at all.
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Crystalyn
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:26 pm Reply with quote
Thank you all for your feedback regarding the gender pronouns of the characters. For now, we've edited the article to take out any gender references at all. To be clear, the anime's official website never used any gender pronouns in Japanese in the character descriptions.
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meiam



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:51 pm Reply with quote
Is this a flash anime or something, those character design lack.. I dunno gradient I guess.
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